Αncient Greek II: A 21st-Century Approach

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Philip S. Peek, Bowling Green State University

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Language: English

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Preface
Module 31 - The Perfect and Pluperfect of ω-verbs and ἵστημι · Mixed Declension Adjectives · Dative of Agent
Module 32 - The Imperative · Consonant Stems · Enclitics
Module 33 - The Present, Future, and Aorist Active Participle · The Attributive Participle · The Future Participle of Purpose · The Genitive Absolute
Module 34 - The Present, Future, Aorist Middle and Passive Participle · The Perfect Active, Middle, and Passive Participle · The Substantive Participle
Module 35 - The Participle Cont.: Τhe Supplementary Participle
Module 36 - The Participle Cont.: The Circumstantial Participle
Module 37 - The Subjunctive: The Present and Aorist Subjunctive
Module 38 - The Subjunctive Cont.: Hortatory · Prohibitive · Deliberative · Emphatic Denial · Tentative Assertion
Module 39 - The Optative
Module 40 - The Subjunctive and the Optative in Purpose and Fear Clauses
Module 41 - The Optative and the Subjunctive in Habitual, Potential, and Prospective Conditions
Module 42 - Counterfactual and Neutral Conditions | Unrealizable Wishes
Module 43 - Subordinate Clauses of Cause and Time
Module 44 - Verbs of Judgment, Necessity, Obligation, and Seeming
Module 45 - Indirect Statement: That-Clauses and Interrogative Clauses
Module 46 - Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Question and Statement
Module 47 - Word Order: Clitics and Full Words
Module 48 - Word Order: Scheppers' Colon Hypothesis
Module 49 - Word Order and Continuity
Module 50 - Word Order and Discontinuity
Module 51 - Chiastic Word Order and Ring Composition
Module 52 - Word Order and Tension
Module 53 - Narratology I: Authors, Narrators, Narratees, Materials, Texts, Stories
Module 54 - Narratology II: Focalization or Point of View and Text 1
Module 55 - Narratology III: Focalization or Point of View and Text 2
Module 56 - Narratology IV: Time 1
Module 57 - Narratology V: Time 2
Module 58 - Narratology VI: Time 3
Module 59 - Narratology VII: Space
Module 60 - Memory

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About the Book

In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.

The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 550 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when reading authentic ancient texts. Analysis and logic exercises enable the identification of clitics and full words as well as the translation and parsing of genuine ancient Greek sentences, with compelling reading selections in English and in Greek offering starting points for contemplation, debate, and reflection. A series of thirty entries by James F. Patterson, using a simplified morphophonemic approach to understanding language improve readers’ understanding of word formation, their vocabulary, and their ability to read and understand Ancient Greek.

This combination of memory-based learning and concept- and skill-based learning gradually builds the confidence of the reader, teaching them how to learn by guiding them from a familiarity with the basics to proficiency in reading this beautiful language. Ancient Greek II: A 21st-Century Approach is written for high-school and university students, but is an instructive and rewarding text for anyone who wishes to learn ancient Greek.

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Philip S. Peek is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Classics at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Civilization. He is interested in the stories we tell ourselves, those we tell each other, and how we interpret those told to us. He believes in many truths and many fictions and is amazed by how the false and true interact with each other. He is fascinated by creativity, translation, and the process of creating a dialogue between different cultures and time periods. He has published a two-volume elementary textbook on how to read and interpret Ancient Greek and a textual commentary on book five of Herodotos’ Histories (U of O Press, 2018). He also has published in METAMORPHOSES three translations, the Alexis poem by Meleagros of Gadara (2019 Fall), Anakreon’s Thracian Filly poem (Spring 2020), and Meleagros’ poem, To A Bee (Spring 2020). He enjoys researching, teaching, translating, and writing about all things ancient Greek. When not at work, he may be found outside hiking, meditating, and enjoying the sounds of the multi-verse.

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